Recently from Walter
March 10th, 2011
Coloniality, Slavery and the Holocaust: Introducing the Decolonial Option
Summer Course 04 to 19 of July 2011 Walter Mignolo, Rolando Vázquez and guest faculty; Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg, The Netherlands. Based on the success and enthusiasm of last year experience, we are moving into a second year with a slight change in our aims. ‘Coloniality, Slavery and the Holocaust: Introducing the Decolonial Option’ is a [...]
June 1st, 2011
Decoloniality and the South West
In the Spring of 2011, a workshop on “Decoloniality and the South West” took place at the university of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, organized by assistant professor Michael Trujillo. It was indeed a wonderful experience with participants from several disciplines and academic formations, as well as belonging to diverse ethnic communities that characterize the [...]
May 28th, 2011
The Spirit Returns to the East: Hong-Kong and Decolonial Thinking
The recently inaugurated Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Cross-Disciplinary Studies has “negotiating the past and coloniality” as one of its five general themes of investigation. The first exploratory workshop on “Coloniality and Decolonial Thinking” will take place at the Institute on Junes 3 and 4 of 2011. For more information about the Institute and [...]
April 3rd, 2011
The Collective Project Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality
One of the pleasure of going to the stacks in any library that allows you to go to the stacks, is to find much more than you were looking for. Now, that pleasure is being complemented (not superseded) by the web. It so happened that looking for recent books and articles about “modernity” (a topic [...]
April 3rd, 2011
Decolonial Aesthetics: Manifesto, Exhibit and Workshop
I shall be short in this posting and just send you to the home page of TDI/Transnational Decolonial Institute where you can find the “Decolonial Aesthetics Manifesto” with a preamble that explains its short but interesting history. You will find also other links and references to contextualize the manifesto. Furthermore, there is now available a [...]
April 18th, 2010
Slavery, the Holocaust and the Challenge of Global Justice
A Summer School in Middleburg, Holland, co-directed by Walter Mignolo and Rolando Vazquez http://trinity.duke.edu/globalstudies/slavery-the-holocaust-and-the-challenge-of-global-justice-exploring-critical-and-decolonial-approaches, followed up by a workshop on Critical and Decolonial Dialogues http://trinity.duke.edu/globalstudies/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/100215-critical-and-decolonial-dialogues-Final.pdf Both the Seminar and the Workshop are based on a basic assumptions: There are two kind of critics to modernity. One is internal to Europe, from the Frankfurt School to [...]
September 6th, 2009
The communal and the decolonial
Published in Turbulence and in Analyse und Kritik I Imagine the world around 1500. It was a polycentric and non-capitalist world. There were many civilizations from China to Sub-Saharan Africa, but none of them dominated the other. There was a radical change in global history that we can summarize in two points: the emergence of [...]
August 8th, 2009
El vuelco de la razón: sobre las revoluciones, independencias y rebeliones de fines del XVIII y principios del XIX
Lunes 22 de diciembre de 2008 http://otrosbicentenarios.blogspot.com/2008/12/el-vuelco-de-la-razn-sobre-las.html 1.- Las llamadas “revoluciones” y a veces “independencias” que sacudieron a América y al mundo del Atlántico (desde España y Portugal hasta Francia, Alemania e Inglaterra), fueron en realidad revoluciones e independencias post-coloniales. Post-coloniales en sentido literal: instauraron órdenes políticos y económicos sobre las ruinas de las colonias [...]
May 29th, 2009
Generar conocimientos desde adentro: los afro-descendientes, indigenas y la re-apropiación epistémica
El PIEB (Proyecto Investigaciones Estratégicas de Bolivia) acaba de publicar electrónicamente una serie de entrevistas realizadas durante el Cuarto Encuentro Internacional del Grupo Barlovento celebrado en La Paz del 18 al 24 de mayo, el cual permitió importantes escenarios de diálogo, reflexión y aproximación en torno a la historia y el presente de los afro [...]
May 25th, 2009
Mas sobre la colonialidad del saber
Silvia Ribeiro es investigadora y directora de gestion de ETC group con base en Mexico. ETC group equivale a Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration. El programa se dedica a investigar en pro del avance sustantable de la diversidad ecologica y de los derechos humanos. Su ultimo articulo publicado en ALAI, America Latina en [...]
May 14th, 2009
The upcoming decolonial and communal pluri-versity
In two of my previous postings I argued for the need of specific type of transformations in the philosophy of education within the existing system and history of the university; history that I have outlined elsewhere. Within the existing system research toward non-capitalist economies shall be encourage as well as research that unveils the devastating [...]